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Mira Kamdar: August 2007
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Saturday, August 18, 2007. India celebrated 60 years of independence on August 15. Many were the nay-sayers around the world who scoffed at India's experiment with democracy. They have all been proven wrong. Democracy - the fact that India belongs to her people - is India's primary achievement, and may yet provide its salvation. Here is the link to an article I published for a special report on India's independence for Forbes.com (in the privileged company of lead author Amartya Sen). http:/ www&...Http:...
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Mira Kamdar: June 2007
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Friday, June 15, 2007. What is it with the French fascination with Bollywood? Not that Bollywood isn't popular around the world but the French mania for Bollywood strikes me as, well, so French. First, there is the fact that France, unlike the United States or the United Kingdom for example, has no major Hindi-language film buff population. So, the Bollywood mania is almost entirely driven by what the French call français de souche. Are you an American dreaming of visiting France? Bollywood), a French mu...
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Mira Kamdar: India at 60
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Saturday, August 18, 2007. India celebrated 60 years of independence on August 15. Many were the nay-sayers around the world who scoffed at India's experiment with democracy. They have all been proven wrong. Democracy - the fact that India belongs to her people - is India's primary achievement, and may yet provide its salvation. Here is the link to an article I published for a special report on India's independence for Forbes.com (in the privileged company of lead author Amartya Sen). http:/ www&...Http:...
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Mira Kamdar: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008. France currently holds the presidency of the European Union, in which role and under the enterprising leadership of President Nicolas Sarkozy (whose name it is really too tempting in the present context to spell “Czarkozy”) France undertook to broker the withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia after their recent incursion to “liberate” South Ossetia and Abkhazia. With typical French. Project, her charitable purchase of his library, and her tolerance. 8212;his rapturous trans...
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Mira Kamdar: Le Bollywood
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Friday, June 15, 2007. What is it with the French fascination with Bollywood? Not that Bollywood isn't popular around the world but the French mania for Bollywood strikes me as, well, so French. First, there is the fact that France, unlike the United States or the United Kingdom for example, has no major Hindi-language film buff population. So, the Bollywood mania is almost entirely driven by what the French call français de souche. Are you an American dreaming of visiting France? Bollywood), a French mu...
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Mira Kamdar: July 2007
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Saturday, July 7, 2007. Check out my long comment, including an excerpt from Motiba's Tattoos. On my grandfather's loving attentions to the crate of Alphonsos that he nurtured to perfect ripeness under his bed each season in Bombay at http:/ www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/07/mango madness.html If that doesn't work, go to Contributors, go to my name and you'll get to the post from there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). New York - Paris - New Delhi. View my complete profile. Women Against Sarah Palin.
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Mira Kamdar: The World is Wet: The Globalization of Monsoon
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Friday, August 10, 2007. The World is Wet: The Globalization of Monsoon. Now where have I seen this before? Oh right, July 2005, Bombay! Rains fell so hard and fast the city was paralyzed. Over 2,000 people died. But this year has been unusually bad. Fields waiting for a good soak were entirely submerged for days longer than anyone could remember, ruining crops that in many cases were farming families' only hope for survival. Entire villages were drowned. Refugees from the floods have not rec...In France...
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Mira Kamdar: French Lessons
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008. France currently holds the presidency of the European Union, in which role and under the enterprising leadership of President Nicolas Sarkozy (whose name it is really too tempting in the present context to spell “Czarkozy”) France undertook to broker the withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia after their recent incursion to “liberate” South Ossetia and Abkhazia. With typical French. Project, her charitable purchase of his library, and her tolerance. 8212;his rapturous trans...
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Mira Kamdar: One More Reason to Love Paris: Free Bicycles
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Thursday, August 9, 2007. One More Reason to Love Paris: Free Bicycles. There are many reasons to fall in love with the City of Light but Paris' progressive mayor Bertrand Delanoë has just added one more: free bicycles. The new program is called "Vélib'" - a neologism from "vélo," bicycle and "libre," free. This from the same man who launched Paris Plage. Seasonal sandy "beaches" on the banks of the Seine for Parisians unable to get away to the seashore in summer. As far as I know, Michael Bloomberg's vi...
